The Trump Constitutional Emergency – Day 60

It’s now been two months since Mueller kicked off this little crisis by turning in his homework of the last two years. We still have not seen the full, unredacted Mueller Report (and it looks increasingly that neither will Congress), nor heard testimony from Mueller himself. That testimony seems destined to be the next locus … Read more

IRS legal memo contradicts bogus assertions by Treasury Secretary

A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post. Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege: … Read more

Medicare-for-all to get a hearing before the House Budget Committee today

The Washington Post reports, Single-payer health care gets a second Captiol Hill hearing today. Medicare-for-all is poised for another big day on Capitol Hill, as the House Budget Committee convenes this morning to examine the intricacies and challenges of any U.S. transition to a unified health-care system run by the government. As in a similar … Read more